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PROGRAMS Excursion to Torres del Paine National Park We leave from
Puerto Natales every day to Torres del Paine national park at 7.30am
and we pick passengers from their hotels. We take the coastal
route nº 9 to head to our first stop, the millenary milodon cave
a huge natural accident, where the early men and the giant sloth (milodon)
lived. Here will do a short hike to see its beauty and history. Then
we will go to the village Cerro Castillo, once large sheep and cattle
ranch part of the remembered Sociedad explotadora Tierra del fuego,
where we make a stop of 30 minutes. Along the route between sheep
and cattle ranches we enter to Torres del paine national park a truly
natural spectacle where native animals such as Guanacos, Andean condors
and Lesser Rheas often accompany the beautiful views of the National
Park. We visited all
the attractions of the park including Lake Nordenskjold and Pehoe
and beautiful waterfall Salto Grande, where we do a short hike of
about 30 minutes to approach and behold it, we also see lakes, rivers
and a great variety of flora and fauna. Then we make a
stop for lunch at the park and during the afternoon we continue our
journey to our last stop, Lake and Grey Glacier, part of the southern
ice field, here we will make a beautiful hike through beech woods
to the shore of this amazing lake, where the icebergs show their beauty,
shapes and colors in the presence of all the visitors. The tour concludes arriving to Puerto Natales between 18:00 and 19:00 hours, leaving passengers at their place of accommodation or bus terminal. We offer excursions and tours across of all Chilean and Argentinean Patagonia. Natural Monument Milodon Cave Declared historical monument in 1968 and in the process of declaration as a natural monument is located 3 kms of waters of Eberhard fjord and 24 kms north of Puerto natales. This natural monument is composed of three caverns and a rocky conglomerate called "silla del Diablo". The major of these caves is 150 meters above sea level and its dimensions are 30 meters high, 80 meters wide and 200 meters deep. The scientific
interest of the place is given by the discovery in 1895 of skin, bones
and other remains of an extinct animal, the MILODON (milodon darwinii),
a large herbivore that died probably in the late Pleistocene.
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Bulnes 769 - Phone: (56)(61) 410734 - Phone/Fax: (56)(61) 411639 Cel.
(56 (09) 6490127 - (56)(09) 5696370 - Puerto Natales - Chile
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